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COLUMBIA HOUSE PLANS PORN CLUB
NY Post ^ | 1/9/05 | JOHN MOTAVALLI

Posted on 01/09/2005 1:43:17 PM PST by wagglebee

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To: GrandmaC

Is that the link for signing up for the new club?


61 posted on 01/09/2005 3:44:33 PM PST by LPM1888 (What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? - Lazarus Long)
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To: wagglebee

thats going to look nice on the credit report....


62 posted on 01/09/2005 3:46:17 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: wagglebee

My prayers have been answered!


63 posted on 01/09/2005 4:25:16 PM PST by Taquito (Scotch, it's not just for breakfast anymore!)
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To: wagglebee
From an episode of The Simpsons:

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/9F12.html

Marge: Homer, do you have an explanation for this bill?

Homer: Oh, it's that record club. The first nine were only a penny. Then they jacked up the price!

64 posted on 01/09/2005 4:28:01 PM PST by grundle
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To: weegee

When I was a teen Bob Crane used to take his daughter and I (her friend) out for dinner. He was always the gentleman and used to command us to stay away from drugs. I guess he knew why. I have never seen the film - I am a little curious but a little sick. He was my friend's Dad.


65 posted on 01/09/2005 4:32:37 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: wagglebee

Sounds like the CD business is being hurt by digital downloads so CH is looking for something else.


66 posted on 01/09/2005 4:40:43 PM PST by LenS
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To: Ksnavely
There is nothing new about pornography, nor the concept of pornography. It has been around since men have figured out how to paint pictures on a slab of rock.

You're right about that. Here's some ancient 'porn' (fertility goddess). LOL


67 posted on 01/09/2005 4:41:30 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: eleni121

I never heard of Blackstone - what (or who) is it?


68 posted on 01/09/2005 4:57:37 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852

Blackstone bought Columbia House a few years ago...and was indicted for some kind of corporate fraud in 1999. I remember seeing that...but I don't know the outcome.

If you find out let me know.


69 posted on 01/09/2005 5:10:47 PM PST by eleni121 (Four more years and four more again after that...)
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To: Yaelle
He had personal problems that appear to have hurt one of his marriages.

The movie Auto Focus doesn't really seem to have a point to make. There is the post-modern fascination that this beloved sitcom lead also had a dark/kinky side (and there is even a "porno" Hogan's Heroes dream sequence) but it doesn't want to fault him for his addictions. The film ends with his death and not much to explain it (although the movie does point a finger of "blame" it still doesn't explain WHY someone would murder another).

The movie Wonderland was even worse as it glorified the drugs and porn world of John Holmes. It covers up the fact that he entered the apartment where his friends were brutally murdered, watched the murders (he was forced to), AND delivered some of the lethal blows (his wife admits to the this in the post-film interviews in Wadd on the DVD). The man was a coke addict who betrayed a friend to steal over a million dollars and then betrayed those friends who helped him steal that money. He was a snitch to vice squad (he would rat out other porn film shoots, when it was still a crime to actually make a porn film even if screening them was legal). He did gay porn for money for drugs. When he had AIDS and couldn't get work, he went to Europe and did not disclose his illness.

Bob Crane was not as bad a person as John Holmes, but both biopics so idolize their subjects that the filmmakers are unwilling to take any moral high ground.

70 posted on 01/09/2005 5:18:29 PM PST by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs; Righter-than-Rush
Because men find it easier to deal with a video than having to be mature enough to do with a living, breathing woman.

Like you for example? Let's see a picture of you.

I just love alien women.

71 posted on 01/09/2005 5:45:11 PM PST by vetvetdoug (In memory of T/Sgt. Secundino "Dean" Baldonado, Jarales, NM-KIA Bien Hoa AFB, RVN 1965)
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To: vetvetdoug

Internet availability + perceived anonimity = porn explosion


72 posted on 01/09/2005 7:42:53 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (May the most you wish for be the least you get.)
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To: wagglebee

What the world needs now is porn--more porn.

< /sarcasm >


73 posted on 01/09/2005 7:44:15 PM PST by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: LenS

Nope. CD sales were up last year.


74 posted on 01/09/2005 7:57:20 PM PST by Tree of Liberty (requiescat in pace, President Reagan)
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To: Personal Responsibility
How about the pornography explosion directly related to the feminist movement?

Ironic that the exploitation explosion of women is the result of women no longer wishing to be satisfied with the standard family roles for women.

75 posted on 01/09/2005 8:11:18 PM PST by vetvetdoug (In memory of T/Sgt. Secundino "Dean" Baldonado, Jarales, NM-KIA Bien Hoa AFB, RVN 1965)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs

BTTT


76 posted on 01/09/2005 8:12:32 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: vetvetdoug

There are men who do find it easier to watch porn videos than go out and find a woman to marry and have happy, healthy sex with.


77 posted on 01/09/2005 8:15:47 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: cyborg; Charles H. (The_r0nin)

Ping


78 posted on 01/09/2005 8:23:18 PM PST by vetvetdoug (In memory of T/Sgt. Secundino "Dean" Baldonado, Jarales, NM-KIA Bien Hoa AFB, RVN 1965)
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To: vetvetdoug
LOL!!!!!!!!!

Oh, talk about serendipity....

79 posted on 01/09/2005 8:27:31 PM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Still teaching... or a reasonable facsimile thereof...)
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To: KJacob

they call that mature? I would call it immature.


80 posted on 01/09/2005 8:29:12 PM PST by gortklattu (As the preacher in Blazing Saddles said "You're on your own.")
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